Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health - Paperback

by Ronald Britton (Editor), Aleksandra Novakovic (Editor)

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, about both forgiving and being forgiven. Each chapter addresses concepts including superego, repetition compulsion, enactment and notions such as sacrifice, penance, justification, absolution, and contrition.

Author Biography

Ronald Britton is a training and supervising analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He first trained as a doctor, and as a child psychiatrist; he was chair of the Department of Children and Parents at the Tavistock Clinic, where he was involved in treatment of deprived children and their parents. This experience was influential to his psychoanalytic thinking where he maintains the importance of 'childhood' as a formative experience.

Aleksandra Novakovic is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Association and a group analyst. She was consultant clinical psychologist, joint head of the Inpatient & Community Psychology Service, and she worked with patients with severe mental health problems and facilitated staff groups for mental health teams. She worked at Tavistock Relationships and supervised on the Reflective Practice Course at IGA.